We found some new critters today; elk and banana slugs!
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| This guy had the nerve to crawl all over our tuna can before dinner. |
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen a giant sequoia. Everything else looks like twigs. The age, girth, height, and sheer number of these trees was astonishing. They can reach heights over 350 feet and live over 3,000 years. Redwood Forest felt like something out of a Tolkien or C.S. Lewis fantasy, almost unreal in its magnitude and depth. A ranger at the park headquarters in Crescent City gave us a heads up on some cool stuff to see. One was a road into the forest, an old carriage trail that weaved in and out of the trees. They never actually cut down any trees to make this road.
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| Carriage trail (the van fit through there, barely). |
Another sight was the Boy Scout Tree which is the 6
th largest sequoia and is located off an unmarked part of the trail on said road. Just check out the pictures to get an idea of the scale of these behemoths. Some were even burned and hollowed out all through the inside but still living. It was a breath-taking place.
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| Boy Scout Tree |
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| Burned out hollow tree, but still alive! |
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